Posted on 05/27/2005 8:15:03 PM PDT by Arkie2
What do YOU use?
actually, I just wait.
American Airlines to and from Hawaii--
Horrible, horrible 'turkey wrap' crap in a plastic bag with some sort of 'southwestern' sauce...no napkins, no knife or fork...on the way home, we brought on board our own monster sammiches, with onion...everyone around us was drooling.
Another couple brought an entire pizza and sliced pineapple for desert...even the attendents were jealous.
Pack your own!
This as close to literally ROTFLMAO as I have ever come!!! God, that is soooo dead-on!
What changed in the last 20 years (or so) that created this allergy to nuts? I don't remember anyone dying from peanut allergies when I was younger.
It is like autism. It used to be .1% now it is 1% (I am trying to recall the exact numbers based on some news stories I have read but I am pretty sure on the magnitude).
What is it about the environment that has created these ailments?
The victim culture has kicked in.
According to an online inflation calculator $120 in 1965 was equal to $714.98 in 2005 dollars.
I just bought a round-trip ticket from Orlando to Providence, RI for $135.00.
That pretty much sums it up. Airline travel has become commoditized while airline unions still think it should be a novel and expensive way to travel.
Somehow or another I got put on an IAM mailing list. The crap in the magazines and flyers I get from these folks is just incredible. They think they are OWED these jobs.
Yes, some have been screwed over but I think if concessions had not been made over the past decade most of these folks would have been without jobs long ago.
And the union bosses really don't care if their strike puts the company(s) out of business. That's their "nuclear option" and they certainly don't mind using it.
Interesting. I hadn't thought of that. I suppose I'm too pragmatic to figure something like that. ;)
It has nothing to do with fear of flying at all, but when I fly, I try to get in and out of the airports and plane asap. I usually either bring more than enough stuff, laptop, book, whatever, to occupy myself or simply sleep for the duration of the flight.
This country's obsessed with food. It seems as if we need a plate of food/snacks and a TV in front of us, or many Americans, whenever we don't have something specific to do.
As well, 30 years ago I don't seem to remember multiple take-out restaurants right near the gates at the airport either. Anyone can go get a value meal or just about anything else prior to flights at most airports and the prices really aren't much different than outside the airport. So I see a far more mitigated need for food on the plane, especially on domestic flights. International I can see, especially to assist with the adjustment of major time zone changes.
$1 a bag for a 3-oz bag of pretzels? You could go to the Wal-Mart and get a two-pound bag for about $2 and feed the whole plane!
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